Forty-Six
Blood and spit smacked the stony ground as Kon cleared his mouth. This cultivator had a good jab, keeping Kon at a distance as they circled the small pit. Sneering the cultivator, Henten, stepped forward and threw ...
2025-08-22 16:01:41 +0000 UTC
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Forty-Five
“Are you sure about this?” Kon asked as he and Diur stood huddled together. The crush of the crowd threatened to shove them against the wall as the screams of the crowd tried to deafen them. Diur nodded as she...
2025-08-21 16:01:22 +0000 UTC
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Forty-Four
Before they could move a figure slid out of the shadows and Kon had a monet of deja vu as Turja’s envoy appeared before them. It slunk forward, shoulders slumped to hide its height as hundreds of teeth revealed ...
2025-08-20 16:02:08 +0000 UTC
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Forty-Three
“That’s a whole lot of people,” Kon said as they walked off the ship. Him and Diur were side by side, looking over the packed crowds in the large spaceport, thousands of beings shouting in native tongues, o...
2025-08-19 16:01:21 +0000 UTC
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Forty-Two
“Is that a human ship?” Kon asked as he leaned over Benny’s shoulder, his eyes locked on the floating ship that hovered over the planet. Benny pushed him away absent mindedly as he scrolled down a list of men...
2025-08-18 16:01:32 +0000 UTC
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THREE
“That’s a human warship,” Alice spat as she leaned over Daniur’s shoulder to look at the sensor arrays. Humanity had taken many prizes over the long years, but they had commissioned some ships as well from worl...
2025-08-15 17:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Forty-One
“We’ve about drained this place. Time to move on,” Benny said a week later. Diur had just finished her second round of tempering yesterday and was resting in her room as the two of them stood on the edge of t...
2025-08-15 16:01:46 +0000 UTC
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Forty
Kon opened the door to the retrofitted bathroom and reeled backward as the astringent smell of cleaning products struck him with the force of a physical blow. A cough bubbled up, intermixing with a sneeze to caus...
2025-08-14 16:01:16 +0000 UTC
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Thirty-Nine
“I still think this is a bad idea,” Diur said as Benny looked on eagerly, looking younger than he ever had as he rubbed his leathery hands together.
“He’ll be fine. Mostly. Maybe.” Ben...
2025-08-13 16:02:04 +0000 UTC
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Thirty-Eight
“How is it I’m the one always covered in gore at the end of this?” Kon asked as he rooted around the chest cavity of the monster. His shoulder was wedged against a bone and the warm organs slithered under ...
2025-08-12 16:01:18 +0000 UTC
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Thirty-Seven
“Think it’ll blow up?” Kon asked as he settled himself down against the hard packed earth. Diur hummed in debate with herself for a second before not responding. Kon suppressed a sigh as he couldn’t get ...
2025-08-11 16:01:22 +0000 UTC
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Thirty-Six
A/N: Bit of a short one, sorry.
“I’ve already identified which runes in your holopad we knew about and transferred them over to your grimoire. The rest will be up to you. I doubt that you’ll be much i...
2025-08-08 16:01:38 +0000 UTC
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Thirty-Five
“Yes.” The word was so easy to say, it came instantly and without hesitation as Kon stared up at the leathery old man who had hope filled eyes that gleamed with fire. Benny smiled widely as he nodded before t...
2025-08-07 16:01:11 +0000 UTC
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Thirty-Four
“Wow. This place is a shithole,” Benny said as he walked down the ramp of the Puca, holding the package over his shoulder. Kon followed right behind, his favorite shotgun in his hands while his mace ...
2025-08-06 16:01:41 +0000 UTC
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Thirty-Three
A/N: That's the End of ARC 1. ARC 2 starts tomorrow.
“Wild Bunch have successfully finished their evac. Full rescue on all prisoners, minimal casualties,” Jurgen reported, his face distorting as the Pu...
2025-08-05 16:01:31 +0000 UTC
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Thirty-Two
Kon had never run with mag boots on, each step slapping hard to the ground, sending reverberations through his knees. Holding himself vertically was a strain on his body, but the lighter than average gravity and h...
2025-08-04 16:01:55 +0000 UTC
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TWO
Alice slipped to the side, allowing the Lupine’s axe to pass by her to embed itself in the metal floor of the space station. A howl of frustration assaulted her ears as the pup voiced his frustration. Alice’s second ...
2025-08-03 19:32:06 +0000 UTC
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Thirty-One
They ran over the charred remnants of the defenders, the crunch of their carbonized bones felt through his boots. Kon focused on keeping up with Benny, the old man running in a zig zag, low to the ground, as fewer...
2025-08-01 16:02:07 +0000 UTC
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Thirty
“Entering engagement zone,” Knight Jurgen’s voice came through the speaker in Kon’s ear. The other man sounded nearly bored, not seconds from breaching a goblin point defense kill zone. Jurgen’s squad ...
2025-07-31 16:01:47 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-Nine
“Exiting,” Benny said quietly. The constant thrum of the engines dying was the first change, followed by the many screens lighting up as they came free of the lane. Diur’s hands danced over the contro...
2025-07-30 16:01:34 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-Eight
Knight Draconis Jurgen’s face snapped into being on the small holograph emitter, floating above the table as he looked them over. The man’s strong jawline was bunched as he gritted his teeth as he look...
2025-07-29 16:01:29 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-Seven
“A battle aura already?” Benny asked with a single raised eyebrow as Diur and Kon sat in front of him. The E-Grade rift treasure sat to the side like an abandoned toy, a lumpy geode of glimmering stone, ligh...
2025-07-28 16:01:40 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-Six
Thick, sloughing pale skin rolled off the creature as it came shambling free of the cave, wobbling with every step as its skin dragged across the ground. A bulbous eye sat in the middle of its head, segmented into...
2025-07-25 16:01:47 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-Five
The E-Grade rift rippled in front of them as they stood shoulder to shoulder, ready to finish their time on the station. The last week had been spent with Diur in meditation in her room, using an array that Benny...
2025-07-24 16:01:31 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-Four
Kon sat on the floor of his room with a pile of F-Grade cores around him, everything they’d acquired from the harvested monsters in the facility. He’d also managed to snag several of the E-Grade cores, keepin...
2025-07-23 16:01:39 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-Three
All three of them sat around the small table as Benny tapped a bare finger on the cover of his own notebook. His brow was crinkled even further than normal as he thought through what he wanted to say. Kon kept h...
2025-07-22 16:01:21 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-Two
A/N: Space, at least in Earth's position, is roughly Negative 455 degrees Fahrenheit
The explosion ripped through the hall, pulverizing them in a concussive blast that threatened to throw them to the ...
2025-07-21 16:02:05 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-One
“I hate being right,” Kon said drily as they stared at the monsters crawling along the edge of the facility. Oozing masses of gelatinous slime, everywhere they moved they left a trail of corrosive slime behind...
2025-07-18 16:01:33 +0000 UTC
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Since we're dipping our toes back into cultivation here is a set of terms/levels and whatnot that Kon already has been introduced too or been explained to him by someone at sometime. There are NO spoilers here, this information is in the text eith...
2025-07-18 04:21:56 +0000 UTC
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Twenty
They stared down at the hole that Kon had been dragged into. The last hour had been spent harvesting the insects they had killed and retreating to the Puca to replenish their supplies. They’d spent only a f...
2025-07-17 16:01:17 +0000 UTC
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